Lifestyle

Wednesday, July 28, 1999

Garage sale planned

Pecos High School Student Council members will be having a "garage sale,"
Saturday, Aug. 7.

If anyone would like to donate items to help the students out, contact
Karen Waters at 445-2858.

Precaution needed with children, water

Thousands of children down annually, and 80 to 95 percent of these deaths
occur between Memorial Day and Labor Day.

"The most important preventive measure is designating an adult to watch
the children in the water," said Dr. Joan Shook a pediatric emergeny-room
physician at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. "A child's ability
to swim is often not enough if he or she gets into trouble in the water."

For good water safety, Shook makes the following suggestions:

* Remove a tired or chilled child from the water immediately.

* Never rely on blow-up toys or other inflatable devices to prevent
drowning.

* Keep non-water toys away from the pool; they can be distracting or
cause a child to fall in the water.

* Be sure pools have fences at least five feet high and have self-closing,
self-latching gates.